The Eternal Storyteller
Subtitle: Oral Literature in Modern China (Nias Studies in Asia Topics, 24)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: November 25, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780700709823
Subjects: Folklore; Literary studies: general; Reference; Folklore & Mythology; Language Arts & Disciplines; Sociology; Chinese; Language; China; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Folk literature, Chinese; Storytelling
First sentence: Storytelling as an oral tradition and a professional art of performing long secular tales in a serial instalments, has survived in China through more than a millennium into our own time, while similar orally transmitted and performed arts have fallen into oblivion in the West.